Cake O'Clock

by Rachel Black

Overview

Have you ever been reluctant to wash your jeans? Worried they will shrink to their original size and no longer fit?
In this non-fiction heart-wrenching account Rachel addresses her lifelong history of disordered dieting and chaotic eating. Attempting to understand why she overeats and sabotages her own attempts to lose weight, when all she wants is to be slim, Rachel explores her past experiences from anorexia to binge eating via everything in between, in an attempt to break free from a life dictated by dysfunctional eating.

Written in an engaging style, Rachel's story begins in the past when she was told to lose weight aged 9. It continues through her life, documenting her present day attempts to overcome a feast and famine style of eating before looking to the future and considering how she may change her behaviour permanently.

This book will resonate with dieters everywhere who will understand Rachel's despair and desire to simply take control of the food she puts into her mouth and become one of those people who 'eat normally'.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045949064
Publisher:	Rachel Black
Publication date:	05/10/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	205 KB

About the Author

Rachel Black lives in Scotland with her husband and two children. At the age of 40, she suffered the opposite of a mid-life crisis and decided to do things properly for once and for all. Blogging and writing all the way, Rachel tackled the wine first. An increasingly 'normal' habit of drinking wine most nights had taken a firm grip. Her first book 'Sober is the New Black' details this acknowledgment, the desire to control her drinking, and finally, acceptance that she cannot moderate her intake of wine and she embarks on a journey of self discovery as she stops drinking for good.

One year later her diet demons take centre stage. Having previously been held in check to allow copious amounts of calorific wine, they now rampage free. Cakes, biscuits, chocolate and desserts have gone from occasional treats to daily indulgences and now the scales hover at dangerous heights. The time to change came one day when Rachel was afraid to wash her jeans, knowing they would return to their original size and no longer fit. Cake O'Clock is her second non-fiction book and details of decades of disordered dieting and chaotic eating. This heart wrenching account examines her past, from anorexia to binge eating, and tries to understand why we can control many many desires, except that to eat.

Rachel still eats cake and continues to try to moderate it. She is pleased cake does not make her drunk or hungover and her favourite is Carrot Cake, because it's healthy, right?